A Third Way

by LEE OSORIO

Nico and Matt are fine- or so they’d say to anyone asking about their marriage. And
that’s true…but less “fine wine” and more “it was fine, but I probably wouldn’t eat there
again.” The decision to open their marriage starts an effort to save their relationship, but
as they queer the boundaries of their marriage it forces them to question what it means to
queer your life. Will their bond survive? Should it?

Nico and Matt are fine- or so they’d say to anyone asking about their marriage. And
that’s true…but less “fine wine” and more “it was fine, but I probably wouldn’t eat there
again.” The decision to open their marriage starts an effort to save their relationship, but
as they queer the boundaries of their marriage it forces them to question what it means to
queer your life. Will their bond survive? Should it?

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  • Paul Donnelly: A Third Way by LEE OSORIO
    “

    Are freedom and commitment mutually exclusive? Or is that question a product of false and oppressive binary systems of thinking? These four complicated, vivid, engaging characters lurch and stumble their way to fluid terms of mutual engagement and a deliciously queered life together. The struggle to build to that life is also highly sensual and filled with moments of betrayed trust and unexpected revelation. This is a complex journey that is infinitely worth taking.

    Are freedom and commitment mutually exclusive? Or is that question a product of false and oppressive binary systems of thinking? These four complicated, vivid, engaging characters lurch and stumble their way to fluid terms of mutual engagement and a deliciously queered life together. The struggle to build to that life is also highly sensual and filled with moments of betrayed trust and unexpected revelation. This is a complex journey that is infinitely worth taking.

    ”
  • Freddie Ashley: A Third Way by LEE OSORIO
    “

    I love this play and how it looks at what it means to queer family structures. There are also interesting questions of love, sex, friendship and fidelity. Great storytelling and interesting characters.

    I love this play and how it looks at what it means to queer family structures. There are also interesting questions of love, sex, friendship and fidelity. Great storytelling and interesting characters.

    ”
NICO- mid 30s, Latine, male identifying, Queer and reads as such in a subtle but
undeniable way. Nico lives perpetually in a hurricane, sometimes in the eye, sometimes
beautifully in the wind and waves, sometimes he’s just messy-a natural disaster and an
awesome force of nature.

MATT- also mid 30s, white, also male identifying, he’s gay (as opposed to queer)- and
there’s something magnetically All American about him, in the truest sense of American-
at once so fucking attractively cocky and deeply insecure, there’s something at once
conservative (not politically, but literally) and yet always yearning for some approval he
isn’t getting

ERICA- also mid 30s, Latina, female identifying, highly successful, highly driven, highly
discontent with how her life, identity, and time has become almost completely built
around her work. Best friends with Nico since college. Once a year they take epic
vacations that Judd Apatow could make a movie out of.

HAAMID- early to late 30s, male-identifying, but a femme queer Middle Eastern, born in
the States, son of immigrants, has had a lot of therapy to become comfortable with who
he is. Still very much a work in progress, but the trauma he’s been through has given him
a maturity beyond his years.